small businesses at a time when we're expecting small businesses to be the engine of job creation in america. >> reporter: speaker boehner is headed to ohio for the weekend, so there will be no more face- to-face meetings for now. white house aides say the lines of communication remain open, but, scott, we haven't been informed of any progress. >> pelley: nancy, thank you. there's another fiscal deadline at the end of the year: two million americans will lose their unemployment benefits. here's jim axelrod. >> reporter: outside boston, life is not exactly turning out the way 57-year-old carol green expected after 25 years of work in retail and health care. >> my boss sat down with me and told me that i did a wonderful job and that my job was eliminated-- nothing personal, just business. >> reporter: that was a year ago. she got $515 a week from massachusetts for six months. a federal program extend those checks. but a few weeks ago, she got a letter from the government. >> the nuts and bolts of it was that it didn't matter how long your extension was, as of the 29th, because of the fiscal cl